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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Isabel Hardman.

So after yesterday's marathon debate in Parliament about Afghanistan, Dominic Raab, the Foreign

Secretary, closed the discussion. Here's what he had to say.

So Mr Speaker, in any crisis, it is how you respond that is critical as my right-on-law

friend made. And the government has two overriding priorities. First, we must evacuate our

own people, the British nationals, the dual nationals in Afghanistan,

who now want to leave.

Those who served our country so loyally and allied to this, we must live up to the best traditions of this country

in playing our part in offering safe haven to those Afghans who are now fleeing persecution

from the Taliban as refugees.

Katie, this comes at a relatively awkward time for the Foreign Secretary, doesn't it?

Because there's a lot of scrutiny on him and his holiday that's intensifying,

even on, you know, day four of him's coming back.

Yes, I think it's getting more difficult for Dominic Grab as the week goes on.

He was already facing criticism for

waiting until Sunday night to fly back from his holiday. But I think a few factors. So we saw

in the debate yesterday how Kirstama, Ian Blackford, others really went for him for going on that

holiday and then staying so long. And I think that the UK

side feel quite frustrated in the government because I think there is no easy solution to any of this

stuff in terms of Afghanistan. Ministers feel that actually Labour haven't really been pushing for it

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